History Podcast / Cerebro

* VerbalTic: Connor tends to pronounce "screamed" as "scah-reamed" for emphasis. He'll also, when speaking as a character and paraphrasing, start sentences with "Hey". To the point that Krakoa Welcomes could make a [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1592664914019373057?s=20&t=4N8yUnUKiazs0qpYv_4FHw supercut]] of it.

* BigWhat: The Ladies Mastermind episode includes a recreation of a scene where Spiral goes "The stupid X-Men are coming" and Storm responds [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1391066429013770245 "The stupid ''what''?"]]

* CatchPhrase: "Don't worry about it." It was used so often by Connor to basically wave away weird stories that it just naturally turned into a catch phrase. It should be noted it's not always used negatively, but also for stories that are fun but relatively inconsequential. [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1411748189984550914 Just listen to how many times he says it during the Monet St. Croix episode.]]

* DramaticUnmask: Whenever Stryfe takes off his helmet to reveal he's identical to Cable, it's this. [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1401330515635060736 "Surprise, bitch, I'm you!"]]

** In the early episodes, Connor would end each episode by having the guest play his game of "Series/TheRealHousewives of Krakoa" and think up a ''Real Housewives''-style tagline for the character. After several guests stated that they had never seen any ''Real Housewives'' shows, Connor decided to end the game. This wasn't before getting [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1395433601529962496 some hilarious moments from it]], however.

* {{Gaydar}}: During the Bobby Drake episode, there was a lot of discussion over moments that indicated Bobby was gay before he was officially outed. Some of those include having no interest in Jean Grey when she shows up in the very first issue of ''X-Men'', going on a road trip with Rogue in the '90s and struggling to talk with her about his home life, and also dating Polaris - which, as per Connor and Anthony Oliveira, [[https://twitter.com/ohjeaux/status/1396619838294953988 "Dating Polaris is gay."]]

** On the Sooraya Qadir episode, guest Khaliden Nas tells Connor that he has to say "'''Predator X'''" in the same tone that everyone does [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1487955856486387714?s=20&t=3HxQ9QTRMEUZkpSHSO7WyQ in the comic]]. It's carried over to later episodes as well.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 100th episode was a planet-sized special on Madelyn Pryor's entire publication history, which had to be split into five parts because the total run time after editing was over ''18 hours''.

** Amara Aquila (Magma) isn't really hated, but Connor and others will bemoan her eating up time in ''New Mutants'' because she's just not very interesting.

** It has also been concurred that Selene can say the F-slur.

** The very first episode is only an hour and twenty minutes long, and Connor himself says he and Tini should wrap things up around the hour mark because he doesn't think anyone would be willing to listen to the podcast for longer than an hour. It was only a few episodes later where episodes started regularly surpassing two hours, and these days are usually three hours at least. It says a fair bit that Connor once tweeted that the perils of having two gays talk about Emma Frost is that you can’t get the episode under two hours; now, there are six hour episodes on Nekra.

** The very first episode is only an hour and twenty minutes long, and Connor himself says he and Tini should wrap things up around the hour mark because he doesn't think anyone would be willing to listen to the podcast for longer than an hour. It was only a few episodes later where episodes started regularly surpassing two hours, and these days are usually three hours at least.

** The ComicBook/MonetStCroix twist is often described as some variation on "two eight-year-olds in a trenchcoat".

''Cerebro'' is a weekly podcast hosted by Connor Goldsmith, where he and a guest sit down and talk about the history of a single character from the ComicBook/XMen comics. Beginning shortly after the ''[[ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge Krakoan Age]]'', it presents itself as a way for new readers to understand the long backstories and contexts present in the various winding stories of the franchise. It's very conversational and comedic in tone, often beginning with current news about the comics before moving into the guest's origin story of becoming an X-Men fan and fan of the spotlight character in particular. Somewhere in the middle, Connor will cut to the "Cerebro Character File," which will be a (nearly) complete history of the character as told by Connor.

There have been a number of guests on the podcast who have also been writers for the X-Men comics, including Creator/TiniHoward, Creator/GerryDuggan, Fabian Nicieza, Creator/AnnNocenti, Creator/SteveOrlando, Creator/KieronGillen, Creator/AlEwing and Creator/MikeCarey.

* BigNameFan: [[https://twitter.com/KrakoaWelcomes Krakoa Welcomes]], who gained notoriety on the podcast for making animatics out of real comic book panels and subbing in Connor and his guest's audio over the actual dialogue.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 5-part, 18-hour Madelyne Pryor episode celebrates three things: the 100th episode of the podcast, the 40th anniversary of Madelyne herself, and the 40th birthday of guest Sara Century.

* ScheduleSlip: The Jubilee Episode was initially scheduled for mid-2021 with colorist and writer Chrisina Strain. However Christina was so busy that the episode was delayed repeatedly until she and Connor decided it wouldn't work in her schedule, and the character's episode eventually came out in January 2023 with guest Jason Loo.
* SerialEscalation: As called out in the Madelyne Pryor episode, the episodes started off under two hours. The Madeline Pryor episode was so long it had to be split into five parts, each of which is over three hours.

''Cerebro'' is a weekly podcast hosted by Connor Goldsmith, where he and a guest sit down and talk about the history of a single character from the ComicBook/XMen comics. Beginning shortly after the ''ComicBook/XMenTheKrakoanAge Krakoan Age'', it presents itself as a way for new readers to understand the long backstories and contexts present in the various winding stories of the franchise. It's very conversational and comedic in tone, often beginning with current news about the comics before moving into the guest's origin story of becoming an X-Men fan and fan of the spotlight character in particular. Somewhere in the middle, Connor will cut to the "Cerebro Character File," which will be a (nearly) complete history of the character as told by Connor.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the early episodes, Connor would end each episode by having the guest play his game of "Series/TheRealHousewives of Krakoa" and think up a ''Real Housewives''-style tagline for the character. After several guests stated that they had never seen any ''Real Housewives'' shows, Connor decided to end the game. This wasn't before getting [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1395433601529962496 some hilarious moments from it]], however.

** Connor will praise creators he especially loves (usually Vita Ayala, but there are others) by saying he'd "read them write the phone book".

* NWordPrivileges: If Connor ever makes a joke about being gay, being Jewish, or being Irish, he'll point out that he's all three and allowed to make such jokes.

** On the Sooraya Qadir episode, guest Khaliden Nas tells Connor that he has to say "'''Predator X'''" in the same tone that everyone does [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1487955856486387714?s=20&t=3HxQ9QTRMEUZkpSHSO7WyQ in the comic]].

* PrecisionFStrike: After every other Cerebro Character File up to that point had started with the character's name before going into the biography, Connor starts the Stryfe file (in Episode 30) with "Alright, here we fuckin go."

* OncePerEpisode: The Cerebro Character File, within which Connor will unfailingly start wrapping it up with the phrase "In the 2019 soft reboot House of X and Powers of X by writer Jonathan Hickman" - even if it's to say that the character hasn't been seen much on Krakoa. Later episodes also go a little further than that as the characters get more story lines post [=HoXPoX=].

* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: On certain characters, Connor has taken to referring to every twelve issues (how many times Zaladane has appeared in the comics) is referred to as "one Zaladane."

** Blurring over the characters' involvement in other titles with "This is not an Avengers podcast." Repeated often, and with much pitch shifting and a few variants (e.g. "This is not a West Coast Avengers podcast" in the Cerebro Character File in the Quicksilver episode). Connor also sometimes uses this phrase as a way of cutting off a digression and bringing the topic back to the focal character of the episode.

** Connor puts emphasis on the last syallable of "sorce''ress''".

''Cerebro'' is a weekly podcast hosted by Connor Goldsmith, where he and a guest sit down and talk about the history of a single character from the ComicBook/XMen comics. The podcast is very conversational in tone, with the guest often starting with their history of being an X-Men fan and going from there. Somewhere in the middle, Connor will cut to the "Cerebro Character File," which will be a (nearly) complete history of the character as told by Connor.

* InsistentTerminology: On the Sooraya Qadir episode, guest Khaliden Nas tells Connor that he has to say "'''Predator X'''" in the same tone that everyone does [[https://twitter.com/CerebroCast/status/1487955856486387714?s=20&t=3HxQ9QTRMEUZkpSHSO7WyQ in the comic]].

* OncePerEpisode: The Cerebro Character File.

* VerbalTic: Connor tends to pronounce "screamed" as "scah-reamed" for emphasis.